Released Black Boy today and on the way back I looked for Stitches. A couple approached me to tell me about a cat on the 8^th floor of blk *11area 2 causing them problems by defecating at the corridor. They said that the cat looks pregnant. I followed them up and as I had hoped after they described the cat…there was a well-fed Patchy. I explained to the couple about the tipped ears and that this cat has been sterilized. Also gave them my number and said that I would talk to the people who feed Patchy outside their door (they were not in at that time)…and advised them to sprinkle crushed moth balls around their flower pots.

Carried Patchy down and gave her some food but she looked frightened and ran up the stairs again. I can only hope to persuade the family to take her in.

new abandonees,  pregnant cats, kittens… everywhere.  How is TNRM ever going to work?

Most of these new cats do not come back for a second or third feeding…probably wandering around looking for food somewhere.  Those who stay to be sterilized will add to the population of community cats. Some old male cats who are not regulars never get a chance to be sterilized because the new females always come first.

There is this calico at *14 area 2 who was highly pregnant when I first saw her. She disappeared for several months and has now come back...pregnant again. I will get her done this time.  Hope Mohan can net Pearl …she is probably also pregnant again.